91: Professor Will’s Magical Sensorium

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

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🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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It's been a big week around these parts--Will helped reveal a new game at E3, and Brad helped launch a new online media property--so we did a potpourri episode touching on a bunch of the technical details of working on these projects, including: Will's embrace of git, how to positively influence Internet behavior, Microsoft's open-source moves, when we might see shipping Unreal Engine 5 games, a search engine that plants trees, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Brad, I started using Duck, Duck Go.
0:01.9	Wait, are you saying you trust ducks with your search results?
0:05.4	I like, it turns out, I like Duck, Duck, Go.
0:08.6	Go on.
0:09.1	Do you remember when Google you type search results in and then the very top of the page
0:13.2	would be the number one search result, like the most best result for that on the internet?
0:17.3	Yes, well, best, right?
0:18.8	In quotes.
0:19.6	Most popular, wildly successful. Yes.
0:22.6	For varying definitions of best, yes. That's how it works now. There weren't there aren't any,
0:27.0	like it doesn't excerpt any stuff from like the top result and be like, yo, here's the bad
0:31.9	version of the thing that we think you're trying to answer. It doesn't have any ads. It doesn't
0:36.2	have like a celebrity panel on the side that's like,
0:40.0	Ernest Borgnein is a Dutch American actor who starred in such films as blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
0:45.9	blah. It's just the search results. No algorithms just search. Well, no, the algorithms drive the
0:51.2	search results. But other than that, that's it. No, I know. No, no data extracted and shoved in your face.
0:56.6	It's just, it's just everything you want with none of the stuff you don't want.
0:59.8	It's just Google without all the bullshit.
1:01.8	It's, yeah, like, I like it.
1:04.4	It turns out it's really good to just get the research results and not all the, I thought I needed the bullshit. I think I was addicted to the bullshit, but now I'm clean.
1:12.3	Do you have any idea who runs that thing?
1:13.8	I'm pulling it up right now.
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